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This guided learning journey will introduce the basics of the ProSocial method as an applied change process and welcome participants into our growing global ProSocial Commons community.
This course provides weekly peer-group meetings to discuss, explore and deepen the work. Participants will be supported in identifying and working on their particular collaborative needs and goals.
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The Tide of Opinion on Group Selection has Turned
The acceptance of group selection has all the earmarks of a paradigm shift.
Natural Selection and Multilevel Selection as Causal Theories
Hollywood Climate Movies and The Potential of Tragedy
The Theory and Practice of Cultural Evolution: Past, Present, and Future, with Peter J. Richerson
DNA, Nabokov, and Biogeography
The authors examine the prehistory of Nabokov’s surprising, controversial, and ultimately vindicated 1945 scenario for the dispersal of Polyommatini Blue butterflies across the Americas.
Role Playing in Human Evolution: From Life to Art
This process of “acting like” is a critically important mechanism in cultural evolution since it leads to social conformity and the homogenization of group behavior.
Why Do Humans Enjoy Fictional Stories?
The imaginary worlds we create and consume are not cultural anomalies, but rather direct manifestations of our cognition.
Evolution, Human Nature, and Imagination
Response to Reviewers of DNA, Nabokov, and Biogeography
Which Way, Evolution & the Arts?
Williams’ Rule and Its Relevance for Positive Change Efforts
Williams’ Rule ought to be more widely known, which can improve any positive change effort, no matter what topic domain or scale.
The Arts as a Communal Signaling Device
Why did early hunter-gatherers engage in the arts when that time could have been more profitably spent dealing with the demands of survival?